Wararka aan idiin hayno maanta waxaa ka mid ah: Dagaalo ka socda Gado iyo dagaalyahaniin shabaab ka tirsan oo lagu qabtay dagaalladaasi, madaxweyne Xasan oo maanta xariga ka jaray kayd shidaal oo ay yeelaneyso dakadda Muqdisho iyo warar kale Warka oo dhan halkan ka dhegysao: Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
By Billow Kerrow My visit last week to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, together with a group of MPs from North Eastern was an eye opener for me, as much as it was a positive public relations coup for the flagile regime. Coming just days after insurgents attacked the official residence of the President and...
By FRED OLUOCH A pilot programme for voluntary repatriation targeting 10,000 refugees from Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya is set to begin in mid-April, but questions linger about the refugees being ready to return to Somalia. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has singled out Kismayu, Baidoa and Luuq as the places they consider...
Warka aan maanta idiin heyno waaa ka mid ah: Xaalada degmada Xudur oo dagan iyo ciidamada oo sii wada howl-galka munaasabada maalinta Haweenka oo Muqdisho iyo badi Gobalada dalka Soomaaliya oo laga xisay iyo warar kale Hlakan ka dhageyso: Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
By Stephanie Nebehay (Reuters) – Fewer than 1,000 remain of more than 100,000 Muslims who once lived in the capital of the Central African Republic, after a campaign of violence by Christian militias, the U.N. aid chief said on Friday. With 650,000 people displaced by the religious conflict, Valerie Amos said the United Nations had...
By Philip Mwakio Kenya: One of the first Kenyan owned hotel management company, Icon Hotel Group Africa is set reap Somalia’s peace dividends by setting up a branch in the country. Peace and normalcy has returned to the Horn of Africa State after Kenya and the African Union defeated the Alshabab. Somalia had not known...
RAYA SHOKATFARD After searching nearly all religions of the world, Islam appeared to be the only pure and pristine religion that pointed humans directly to God. One would wonder if all the questions of a skeptic were answered, the road paved to come steps closer to the Creator, logical issues were addressed and doubts were...
Spokesman for African Union forces in Somalia says al-Qaeda-linked group was driven from Hudur, a statement it denies. Hamza Mohamed Al-Shabab claim it is still in control of Hudur [Al Jazeera] Ethiopian and Somali forces have taken a strategic regional capital from the al-Qaeda-linked rebel group al-Shabab, a spokesman for the UN-backed soldiers has told...
By Samer Muscati Commentary: In a country where one-third of the victims of sexual crimes are children, police training and a “zero-tolerance policy” can go a long way. MOGADISHU, Somalia – Maryam, a 37-year-old single mother who was gang raped in late 2012 in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, told us that she regretted going to the police...
By Justin Marozzi, Somalia In the West, people tend not to call their friends and colleagues nicknames that pick on negative physical traits. But in Somalia, people have a love of such nicknames. When I got my ID badge for the president’s office in Mogadishu the other day, I knew I had finally been accepted....